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How her fingers went when they moved by note Through measures fine, as she marched them o'er The yielding plank of the ivory floor. - Benjamin Franklin Taylor, Songs of Yesterday--How the Brook Went to Mill (st. 3) Some of the fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination; as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself. - Sir William Temple Music, which gentler on the spirit lies than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. - Lord Alfred Tennyson It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King--Merlin and Vivien (l. 393) Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Lotos Eaters--Choric Song (st. 1) Music that gentlier on the spirit lies Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Lotos Eaters--Choric Song (st. 1) When I hear music I fear no danger, I am invulnerable, I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. - Henry David Thoreau I worry that the person who thought up musak may be thinking up something else. - Lily Tomlin Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse. - Henry Theodore Tuckerman Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest. - Henry Theodore Tuckerman Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find. - Edmund Waller Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians. - Horace (Horatio) Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth! - Izaak Walton I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am. - Artemus Ward (pseudonym of Charles Farrar Browne), Lecture Strange! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long. - Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (bk. II, 19) All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. - Walt Whitman And with a secret pain, And smiles that seem akin to tears, We hear the wild refrain. - John Greenleaf Whittier, At Port Royal I'm the sweetest sound in orchestra heard Yet in orchestra never have been. - Dr. Samuel Wilberforce, Riddle (first lines) Her ivory hands on the ivory keys Strayed in a fitful fantasy, Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees Rustle their pale leaves listlessly Or the drifting foam of a restless sea When the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde), In the Gold Room--A Harmony A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. - Colin Wilson What fairy-like music steals over the sea, Entrancing our senses with charmed melody? - Mrs. Margaret C.B. Wilson, What Fairy-like Music Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark. - William Wordsworth, A Morning Exercise Where music dwells Lingering, and wandering on as loth to die; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality. - William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets (pt. III, 63, Inside of King's Chapel, Cambridge) Soft is the music that would charm forever: The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly. - William Wordsworth, Not Love, Not War Sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet. - William Wordsworth, Personal Talk (st. 2) Displaying page 12 of 13 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [12] 13
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